Clear and Muddy Loss of Love

The cold wind shakes the candle in the middle of winter

In the 16th year of Jingjia, heavy snow fell.

The land of Jingwei and Weiwei is covered with silver, and everything is silent.

The Nangong royal family, covered by a layer of gloom, ushered in a happy event after a long absence.

The second child of Princess Qionghua Nangong Sunu and Shangguanwu was born. As Qi Yuxiao blessed at the beginning, this child is a daughter.

As the eldest daughter of the Zhenbei General's Mansion, this little princess is destined to be extraordinary.

Nangongsu, who does not give in to her husband, has high hopes for her eldest daughter. After thinking hard for three days, she named this little princess "Youhe", Shangguan Youhe.

It is taken from "There is Fusu in the mountains, and Hehua in Xi'an". Because the word "Hua" collided with the titles of my mother and second aunt, I chose the word "Youhe".

In order to show his respect for the eldest sister, Nan Gongda also gave a favor to the Zhenbei General's Mansion. He drafted the imperial edict in the name of the prince Jian Guo, canonized Shangguan You He as Danyang Princess, and gave food to [-] households in the town.

Generally speaking, princesses are no longer directly related to the royal family. There are rewards, but they rarely give food. Nan Gongda's intentions are clear at a glance.

Nangong Jingnv also likes her niece very much. In addition, Nangong Sunv gave her personal jade pendant to Yuxiao before. Nangong Jingnv personally selected twelve high-quality oriental beads from the treasury and made them for Shangguan Youhe. a collar.

On the day when Shangguan Youhe had a full moon, Qi Yan and Nangong Jingnv brought Qi Yuxiao to congratulate him, and Qi Yuxiao held the collar in his arms.

When the guests arrived, Nangong Su ordered someone to carry Princess Danyang out. The little guy was born in pink and jade, and looked at him curiously with watery black eyes.

Shangguan Fu was a little unhappy, he always heard people say: "Brothers in battle", he is a major general of Zhenbei General's Mansion, and one day he will go to battle, he hopes to have a younger brother with him.

Qi Yuxiao's behavior was completely opposite to Shangguan Fu's. She was overjoyed when she saw Shangguan Youhe, and "dengdengdeng" ran to the nanny, tiptoeing eagerly at the infant Shangguan Youhe.

Nangong Jingnu: "Yuxiao, give the collar to my cousin."

Qi Yuxiao nodded, took out the collar and held it in the palm of his hand, hesitated for a moment but put it on his own neck.

Nangong Jingnv frowned slightly: "Yuxiao?"

Qi Yuxiao turned his head to look at his parents, and said seriously: "The collar is blowing cold wind, wait for me to warm it up before putting it on for my cousin."

Qi Yan burst into a gratified smile, and Nangong Sunu even waved her hand towards Qi Yuxiao, who then ran up to Nangong Sunu and called out sweetly: "Big aunt!"

Nangong Sunu pulled Yuxiao into her arms and held her little hands to keep her warm, and said affectionately, "What a caring and good boy."

Shangguan Fu on the side heard this, and rolled his eyes at Qi Yuxiao, looking dissatisfied.

Qi Yuxiao went to Nangong Shunv's place to act coquettishly for a while, returned to Shangguan Youhe, put the collar with his own body temperature on the other party's neck, and then did not leave again until Shangguan Youhe yawned After being taken away by the nanny, she returned to Qi Yan's side.

Shangguan Fu rubbed his hands together and walked towards Qi Yuxiao.

Qi Yu and Xiao Yuguang glanced at it, and opened his arms: "Father, hug!"

Shangguan Fu paused, but still mustered up the courage to walk over: "Third Uncle, Cousin..."

Qi Yuxiao leaned on Qi Yan's shoulder: "Father, my daughter is tired."

Shangguan Fu was at a loss for what to do, how could Qi Yan not understand what his daughter was thinking?

Laughing secretly that the little girl really held grudges, she patted Qi Yuxiao on the back, and said in a negotiating tone: "The visitor is a guest, and the guest does as he pleases."

Qi Yuxiao sighed, then jumped out of Qi Yan's arms: "What are you playing?"

Shangguan Fu happily replied, "Make a snowman?"

Qi Yuxiao: "Let's go..." After speaking, she turned her head and glanced at Qi Yan, that helpless gaze made Qi Yan unable to help but laugh.

Nangong Jingnv witnessed the interaction between the "father and daughter", and her eyes were a little sad when she saw the two little guys going away.

It's not that she is selfish, but she also wants to have a child of herself and Qi Yan.

……

The two sons of the Lu Mansion completed the emperor's order and returned to the capital. Lu Zhongxing ordered someone to clean the Taiwei's Mansion, and moved in impatiently.

Even before this year, Lu Zhongxing would never have dreamed that he could live in the main house. According to common sense, even if Lu Quan was gone, Lu Boyan should live in the main house.

And what about Lu Boyan?Before leaving Beijing, he sent his servants to move his belongings to Pushe Mansion.

On the second day after Lu Zhongxing moved into Taiwei's Mansion, Ding Yi and his wife came to the door with a lot of gifts to congratulate Lu Zhongxing on his housewarming.

Lu Zhongxing is no longer what it used to be, he inherited not only half of the soldier talisman, but also Lu Quan's former staff and advisers.

Lu Zhongxing already knew about Ding Fengshan, and these aides also suggested that Lu Zhongxing should not go into this muddy water. What Ding Fengshan committed was an unforgivable crime.Once the Taiwei came forward to intercede, all the military officers would agree, and the court would give him a lighter sentence.But the Ding family is not an ordinary courtier, but a relative of the Lu family.This will make the courtiers feel that the Taiwei Mansion can only cover the sky with its hands, and can even influence the holy will, and although Princess Zhenzhen has no position in the court at present, judging from the last time the students from Jinzhou jointly signed a letter, Qi Yan this The identity of the person in charge of Jinzhou Prefecture cannot be shaken.

Lu Zhongxing was like enlightenment, no wonder he always felt that his father was far-sighted, with such a group of Sai Zhuge's support, how could it not be a big deal?

So Lu Zhongxing said: "The royal family went out for funerals one after another, and His Majesty is in poor health" as an excuse, saying that he had no plan to hold a housewarming banquet, and that Ding Yi was an elder, so naturally he could not accept the gift without a title.

Ding Yi still brought this matter up, and Lu Zhongxing used the excuse that he was the second son, and went to his elder brother for all family matters.

……

Ding Yi and his wife had the cheek to go to the Pushe Mansion again. Lu Boyan's counselors also strongly opposed it. The reason was: the counselors felt that Lu Boyan missed the military talisman this time, probably because he had supported the third prince, and the fifth prince supported Lu Zhongxing's superior warning The meaning is already very strong. Right now, it is a certainty that the fifth prince will succeed to the throne. In this case, the fifth prince is also the presiding judge, so it is obviously unwise to intercede.

The snow on the street is not thick enough, looking around the snow, Ding Yi has a sense of despair that there is no way to go to the sky and no way to go to the earth.

Mrs. Ding cried bitterly in the street, and begged Ding Yi to try her luck elsewhere, but she was dragged into the carriage by her husband with a dark face.

When the matter came to this point, Ding Yi already knew that her son would not be rescued, and going further would not only be futile, but also embarrassing.

My two nephews are both on the sidelines, and others will use this reason to prevaricate.

Now I can only hope that before next year's autumn harvest, the new emperor will enthroned and amnesty the world. Ding Yi can only think about it, and dare not say it out loud.

In the 15th year of Jingjia, Shangyuan Festival.

Because Nangong kept everything simple at the banquet while sick in bed, only the members of the royal family were invited, and the rest of the foreign officials were not invited, and singing and dancing were also omitted.

In the empty hall, none of the concubines from the harem came, and Nan Gongda sat alone in the main seat.

The emperor's heirs withered, counting the three princesses and two son-in-laws, there were less than ten people. Fortunately, there were still a few children and the prince Liang Di who barely made up the whole number.

The children set up a single table in the small hall, halfway through the banquet, the small hall became noisy, and Nangongda's eldest daughter ran over: "Father, it's not good... Yuxiao and Fu'er are fighting!"

Nangong Sunu helped her forehead helplessly, Qi Yan stood up.

With a "bang", the corner door of the hall was knocked open, and a gust of cold wind swept in with snow, causing the palace lanterns to flicker.

Nangongda: "Why are you so panicked?"

The servant forgot to even salute, and trotted all the way to kneel under the imperial steps. The servant next to Nangongda came down, and the messenger whispered something in the servant's ear. The servant was shocked, and hurried back to Nangongda to say A few words.

Nangongda stood up suddenly, then sat down on the chair again.

Nangong Sunu: "What happened?"

Nangongda: "Father...is sick, Father-in-law Sijiu let us brothers and sisters go over."

The banquet came to an abrupt end, and the cups and cups were messed up.

Nangong Jingnv's face was pale, she leaned on Qi Yan and looked at Nangong Sunv from a distance.

Nangong Sunu looked thoughtful.

Qi Yan: "Your Highness, don't worry, go and have a look first."

The children were dragged away by their respective nannies, and Shangguan Fu was beaten up all over the head by Qi Yuxiao, but no one bothered.

Everyone boarded their sedan chairs and went straight to Ganquan Palace. Nangong Jingnv wept silently against the cold wind. She knew her father's situation best.

These days, Nangong Jingnv goes to pay her respects every day, but Nangong Rang spends less and less time awake.

Even though Nangong Jingnv was mentally prepared, she was still sad and unbearable.

The cold wind stained with tears, icy cold.

Qi Yan hugged Nangong Jingnv in his arms distressedly, feeling a little relieved in her heart: that's okay...Although he failed to end his enemy with his own hands, Nangong Rang also suffered all kinds of torture during these years of lingering. This ending, also good.

If she really killed Nangong Rang with her own hands... Qi Yan didn't know how to face Nangong Jingnv.

And in Nangong Jingnv's mind, all the little things about herself and her father in the past 20 years came to mind.

When she was a child, she liked to run and throw herself into the arms of her father, and then her father would hug her, rub her cheeks with his whiskers, and call out lovingly: My son.

Later, when I grew up slowly, I didn't want to throw myself into the arms of my father anymore.He even felt that the palace restricted him, so he said he wanted to move out of the palace. After a month of trouble, his father finally agreed, and on the day he left the palace, he used nearly a hundred horse-drawn carriages to bring the rewards from his mansion to the princess mansion.

At the age of 14, I got married and had a small family.

And then... the father is ill, and he is willing to take the risk to help himself to the throne...

Thinking of these, Nangong Jingnv's heart felt like a knife was being twisted, and tears flowed like springs.

After entering Ganquan Palace, the three directors of the imperial hospital and the four chief chiefs were all there, and half an hour later the imperial doctors came out with their medicine boxes on their backs, and Sijiu came in front of the crowd: "Your Highness calls some of your Highnesses in."

Sijiu raised his fly whisk: "Two consorts, please stay a little longer, Your Majesty will summon you two alone later."

Qi Yan: "Yes."

Lu Zhongxing: "Yes."

Sijiu entered the bedroom and closed the door behind him.

Nangong Sunu saw Nangong Rang, who was skinny and withered, and knelt down beside the bed with a "plop": "Father!"

The past few years of being bedridden made Nangong Rang look like a different person, and everyone present except Nangong Jingnv was startled.

If it wasn't for Nan Gongrang sleeping on the dragon bed and covered with a dragon quilt, they wouldn't even recognize that the old man with all white hair and a bare face on the bed is the current Ninth Five-Year King, the majestic father in their memory.

Sijiu came to Nangong Rang's bedside and called out: "Your Majesty, your highnesses are here."

Nangongrang didn't open his eyes, but he squeezed out a trill from his throat: "En."

Nangong Rang took a few breaths before he controlled the good hand and tapped his pillow with the back of his hand.

Sijiu: "Yes."

Sijiu took out a volume of imperial decree from under Nangongrang's jade pillow, Nangongda's eyes lit up, and he stared at it intently.

But Nangong Jingnv didn't even lift her eyelids, she knelt beside Nangong Sunv, biting her lip while pulling Nangong Rang's quilt, and wept silently.

Although Sijiu was old and dim-sighted, he saw this scene clearly.With emotion and relief, he shook off the imperial decree: "Fengtian carries the emperor, and the imperial edict said: I know that time is not long. In the past 18 years since I took the throne, I have stabilized the people's livelihood, flattened Beijing, and unified the world. Choose good ministers, choose good generals, and work hard to govern eighteen years. Zai, I dare not slack for a moment until I die. After I passed away, all the princes went to the ancestral mausoleum to ask for the coffin of the Yuan Empress Ma's family, and opened the Chishan Emperor's Mausoleum. I and Yuan Empress Ann share the same cave..."

Nangong Jingnv covered her mouth, but the suppressed cry escaped from her fingers.

She remembered that when she was eight years old, her mother's death day, her father took her to Fengzao Palace to pay homage, and her father murmured to the portrait of her mother on the main hall: "You don't have to worry about Jing's daughter. Never stand behind..."

Forty-nine: "Conferring the Ma family to the Empress Yuan as: Gongyi to Xiande Chunshuyi Duankai Yuan Shengyi Empress, the country cannot live without a king for a day, I have written a will, and after I and the Empress Yuan sleep in the imperial tomb, From April [-]th, we will lead all civil and military officials to take out the imperial decree, and announce the candidate for the new monarch in public. This is your honor."

Everyone: "My son, I would like to obey the imperial decree."

Sijiu: "Have you recorded it?"

It was only then that everyone discovered that in the corner of the sleeping hall, three speakers were kneeling, presumably to avoid disputes over the will.

Nangong Rang let out a long sigh, and slowly raised his hand.

Sijiu: "Your Highness, please kneel down."

Everyone: "Yes."

Nangong Jingnv cried into tears, she bit the back of her hand and nestled into Nangong Shunv's arms. The three sisters were all crying, but none of them dared to speak out.

Sijiu: "Master Lu, His Majesty announces you to enter."

Lu Zhongxing straightened his clothes, gave Qi Yan a provocative look, and entered the bedroom.Lu Zhongxing went in with his front foot, and the three speakers came out with his back foot.

Lu Zhongxing knelt beside the bed: "Royal father."

Nangong Rang slowly opened his eyes, stared blankly at the bright yellow curtain above his head, was silent for as long as a cup of tea, and said, "Treat Shu Nu well."

Lu Zhongxing was startled, and kowtowed in agreement.

Sijiu: "Master Lu, His Majesty has left you a secret decree, and the miscellaneous family will hand it over to you in due course."

Lu Zhongxing was shocked: "Yes!"

I don't know what method the imperial doctors used, Nangong Rang, who had been unable to speak for many years, was able to speak, even though his words were slurred, he could barely understand them.

Nangong Rang closed his eyes, Sijiu: "Lord Lu, kneel down."

Lu Zhongxing: "Yes."

After Lu Zhongxing came out, it took a while for four or nine to come out.

Sijiu glanced at Qi Yan lightly: "A few imperial doctors, come in, Your Majesty is tired, and I will summon Prince Zhenzhen alone some other day."

Qi Yan lowered her head, her star eyes slightly closed: "Yes."